We've spent plenty of money, but it's been our own money. Before the Glazers' leveraged takeover, we didn't owe anybody a penny. Bloody yanks.
That was the same with Rangers, until David Murray took over and asset stripped the club then left us with millions of debt then sold us to the Scottish version of Fred Goodwin.... wait!
To be fair, the Glazers haven't been anywhere near as bad as that. They've kept out of the way, allowed a decent transfer budget and commercially we're on a different level than we were before they took over. I just wish they'd put some of their own money in. Or at the very least, stop taking money out of the club under the guise of "management fees"
They only did as well as they did in the early 90s because Ferguson spent more than everyone perhaps other than Blackburn. And it's only seen as 'their own money' because Sky choose to give them such a ridiculously unfair amount of it. By the logic that, since it's right to spent everything you earn, the greed of that pig Rooney boosting his wages up to sky high prices is fine because it's 'our money' and it's there to be spent. **** Sky TV's money. What happened to being rational and prudent?
Liverpool built their success in the 70s and 80s off the back of the working man through pools money -revenue gained through English football FFS. to all intents and purposes they were a natioanlised club until the lottery came along.
Starkey tees it up beautifully and Jip Jap hammers it in the back of the net as deftly as John Lennon slapping Cynthia
FFS What's a scum fan doing with the England badge anyway? I appreciate the value of winding up the Goidelic urchins who loiter round this Northerner-owned GC forum, but I thought you lot hated the national side? Club owv'o ****reh mayyyte is usually the response I get from Mancs when I so much as mention anything to do with England or international football. They do have a point.
Matt Le Tissier was massively overrated. And fat. And unambitious. Alex Ferguson has killed most of Rooney's flair and natural talent.
Nothing wrong with not realizing your ambitions if you value loyalty more. Lucky Gerrard never realized his by moving to Chelsea like he was touting, eh?
He's a good goalscorer no doubt, but bar the odd moment of genius that's all he is nowadays. A Gary Lineker type forward, which is a pity, because he had the potential to be so much more, for England anyway.
His link up play is decent. But he's not even close to being one of the worlds best in terms of link up play or in the role off the striker though. And no amount of goals will convince me otherwise. Rooney from 04-06 was one of the most exciting players in the world to watch. He was unpredictable. Now he's an effective machine who's been programmed to find space in the box to score. Doesn't mean he's not a great player, it just means England have lost the player with the most flair since Gascoigne to a goal poacher.
Hardly, he's pretty much a creative midfielder/trequartita who scores over 20 goals a season, dont sound too bad He is definitely not a poacher
Rooney has proved yet again with this Ukraine game that he isn't a creative midfielder/trequartista/playmaker with him being non existant throughout the first half. Creative midfielders get on the ball and make things happen. Rooney's sole contribution in the first half was to drift to the far post and head a brilliant opportunity wide. Its actually an insult to the likes of Del Piero and Totti to claim Rooney is similar to them.
